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Sandra Pitblado, President Robert Farquharson
Jini Stolk, Executive Director Sandra Pitblado is an individual who has demonstrated exemplary civic and philanthropic leadership. She and her husband Jim were honoured in 1999 with the NSFRE Outstanding Philanthropist Award, one of many awards they have received in recognition of their exceptional financial generosity and dedication to a variety of organizations throughout Southern Ontario. From 1990 to 1998, Sandra was a member of the Board of the critically acclaimed Tarragon Theatre, serving as its President for six years. She is a 12-year veteran of the Stratford Board of Governors, who stepped down in December 2002 after serving two years as its Chair. During her tenure, Sandra and Jim, along with Raphael and Jane Bernstein, made possible the building of the Stratford Festival’s new 278-seat Studio Theatre through their generous personal gift. She and Jim funded the $2-million endowed Pitblado Chair in Cell Biology at The Hospital for Sick Children, one of their numerous gifts to Sick Kids in their 20-year relationship with the hospital. The Pitblados have also been instrumental in supporting the growth of the National Ballet of Canada for more than twelve years and were recently honoured at the Governor General’s Awards with the Ramon John Hnatysyn Award for volunteerism in the performing arts. Mallory Gilbert - Treasurer One of Canada’s senior and most-respected arts managers, Mallory Gilbert has been General Manager of Tarragon Theatre from 1978 to the present. She has served as a board member and President (1989-1993) of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, as Vice-President of the Toronto Theatre Alliance, and a member of the advisory board of the University of Toronto, Arts Administration Program. In 1998 she received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Arts Administration and currently serves on the Arts Advisory Panel of the Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto Mayor’s Roundtable on Arts and Culture and the Advisory Board of York University’s MBA Arts and Media programme. In 2004, Mallory received an honorary Life Membership in PACT and in 2005, she received the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership. Joan Bosworth currently works for the Canadian Stage Company – CanStage as Director of Individual Giving. Previously she worked for Toronto’s Ronald McDonald House in Corporate Relations and Communications and was the Executive Director of CANFAR, Canada’s pre-eminent foundation for AIDS research. Joan served as General Manager of Opera Atelier from 1992 – 2001, where she oversaw the company’s explosive growth both in size and national and international profile. She was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company before that, and continues her involvement with dance by working with the Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts as Coordinator of its Flying Squad program. Ella Cooper is the Founding Director of the Emerging Arts Professional Network. As a self proclaimed Emerging Arts Professional, originally from Montreal and now based in Toronto, Ella holds an extensive background in visual arts, dance, photography, music, design and new media. At the EAP Network Ella has spent the past two years working with a national committee of volunteers to create a vibrant online community network and volunteer run not for profit organization made up of almost 3,000 arts professionals across Canada. Ella is an active member of the arts community as both arts manager and artist. She has worked in marketing and fundraising capacities for arts organizations that include independent theatre companies in England, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Shaw Festival, Kaeja d'Dance & Soundstreams Canada. She has been awarded grants for arts management training from the London Independent Theatre Council in England and the CCCO's Income Managers Program and carries out arts management, web and graphic design contracts through her new company Ella Cooper Creative Arts. In addition, as an emerging artist, Ella has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council for her dance photography and a new photobased soundscape installation called Art + Identity (launch 2009). Ella sits on the Board of Directors for the Cultural Careers Council Ontario and has served on juries for the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council and the Dora Mavor Moore Dance Jury. She has also appeared as a guest speaker on a number of panels including the Canadian Dance Assembly, Canadian Public Arts Funders, the Association of Cultural Executives, Technology in the Arts Conference and the TAPA Trade Forum. Derek Hayes worked at the law firm of Stikeman Elliott from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce where he headed the Corporate Governance Group. Before that position he was Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel for Shell Canada. Mr. Hayes was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1963 and attended the University of Toronto obtaining an Honours BA degree in Political Science and Economics and an LLB degree from the University of Toronto Law School in 1961. He spent a year at the University of London in 1965 where he received his LLM degree. He is currently on the board of directors of the Mendelssohn Choir, the Cabinet for the Faculty of Music, the Canadian Centre for Ethics and is involved in fundraising for Trinity College and Hart House at the University of Toronto. Graduating in History and Sociology (specializing in Latin America), Caroline has spent the best part of 25 years in the arts, as stage manager, production and technical manager, project manager and education director for community and young peoples theatre companies in England, Wales, Scotland and now Canada. |
It has taken her into community parades with boats, cars and bicycles made of sticky tape, giant puppets in Portugal, human circuses in housing estates, too many events on soggy fields, community plays in south London, touring round the Scottish Highlands, running two theatres for young people in Wales, enjoying fireworks and tugs (fortunately at the same time) and now opera. Her work in Canada has included Senior Manager of the Education and Outreach Department, Canadian Opera Company; Production Management for Constantinople, a multimedia theatre/opera production, which tours internationally and throughout Canada and Consulting Director of Outreach and Education, Theatre Direct. Brett Ledger is a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons) and the University of Windsor (LLB). He has a broad-ranging corporate and commercial litigation practice, representing many of Canada’s major corporations. He has litigated in courts across Canada including the Supreme Court of Canada. Brett has been a volunteer for the United Way and has enjoyed involvement with the Toronto dance community, having chaired the Board of Directors of Desrosiers Dance Theatre. Brett is a member of a variety of professional organizations including the Advocates Society, the American Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association and the International Pension & Employee Benefits Lawyers Association. Celia Smith (BA Honours, MBA) is currently the President of the Board of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and was the General Manager at The Canadian Stage Company (CanStage) from 2001 - 2006. Celia began her arts career in 1987 at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, establishing their corporate development program. Celia joined CanStage in 1990 as Director of Development and become Director of Development and Communications in 1992. During these seasons, she led a team of marketing, public relations, sales and fundraising professionals who significantly expanded the audiences for CanStage work, box office revenue, corporate sponsorship and individual contributions. In 1997, Celia established Celia Smith & Associates, offering marketing, development and strategic consulting advice to clients ranging from the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Playhouse, Opera Atelier and The Grand Theatre, London. Celia returned to CanStage in 2000 as coach in the areas of marketing and development. In September 2001 she became the General Manager, responsible for all areas of earned and contributed revenue, finance and administration.
Jini Stolk, Executive Director Jini Stolk was Managing Director of Toronto Dance Theatre between 1994 and 2000; before that she spent 10 years as Executive Director of the Toronto Theatre Alliance. She has also served as Associate Director of the Association of Canadian Publishers and General Manager of Open Studio. She is a committed and effective arts advocate, and is President of the Board of Six Stages, and Past-President and current Board member of Artscape. Peter Brown, Program Development and Evaluation Director Peter Brown has been a consultant to The Canada Council, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Conference of the Arts and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Peter was for three years the Director of Operations for Harbourfront Corporation in Toronto. For nine years, until 1994, Peter was the Director of Finance and Administration of the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa. Prior to that, he was the chief administrative and financial officer for Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. Jane Marsland, Technical Assistance Director Jane Marsland has managed arts organizations since 1974. She was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1983-1999. In 1995, Jane was awarded the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding contribution to leadership in the arts. She has been an articulate advocate for the arts over many years. She was Co-Founder of For Dance and Opera, a strategic collaboration to book and tour four companies as well as Co-Founder and Director of ARTS4CHANGE, a program designed to create positive change for and by arts professionals in Toronto. Nello McDaniel and George
Thorn, ARTS Action Research, Nello McDaniel and George Thorn are widely recognized for their groundbreaking work in redefining the role, relationships and operation of an arts organization in today’s challenging arts environment. ARTS Action Research is an extension of their fifteen-year collaboration in arts management consulting. During this period, McDaniel and Thorn have consulted with hundreds of arts organizations in all disciplines, sizes and situations, nationally and internationally. AAR’s clients range from Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. to the Atlanta Ballet, to hundreds of small groups through arts service organizations such as the alliance of resident theaters / New York (ART/NY), Theater L.A. and the Atlanta Dance Initiative. McDaniel and Thorn have conducted action research projects for institutions such as the Kennedy Center, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). They have led and directed scores of workshops and conferences in the United States, Canada and abroad and have co-authored numerous publications including Rethinking and Restructuring the Arts Organization, Arts Boards – Creating a New Community Equation, The Quiet Crisis in the Arts and Toward a new Arts Order/Process, Power, Change, and their newest publication, Arts/Planning – A Dynamic Balance. Shana Hillman Prior to joining Creative Trust, Shana was the Administrator of Artist's Services at the Dance Umbrella of Ontario for 4 years; before that she worked at Arcas Direct Marketing Group as an Account Executive. She has also served as the Development Manager at Toronto Dance Theatre, the Programming Assistant at the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts and as a Communications and Development Assistant at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Shana is a devoted volunteer, having volunteered at the Bata Shoe Museum for 5 years and serving as Co-Marketing Director of the 1999 CIBC Run for the Cure benefiting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation as well at countless dance performances and festivals across the City. Shana also does freelance arts writing, consulting and administration, most notably for Hari Krishnan and his company inDANCE, where she is proud to also serve on the board. |
